Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъlbь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Either from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gulbis (whence Latvian gùlbis, Lithuanian gulbi̇̀s, Old Prussian gulbis) with a variant *kulpis (whence Proto-Slavic *kъlpь, which Derksen deems a substrate borrowing);
or from the same source as Greek κυβιός (kubiós) and Latin gobius, which are also considered to be from a non-Indo-European substrate. Connected also with *kъlbь (“gudgeon”).

Noun

*gъlbь m

swan

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)
  Cyrillic script: гу̑б (“swan; goby”)
  
  Latin script: gȗb

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gъlbь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197
Derksen, Rick (2015) “gulbis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 192
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gъlbь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 190